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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd... |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Page 4 of The Student Voice featuring the title "Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings," and a photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French-Italian Film, "Che gioia vivere." Nine illustrated, square panels filled with different scenes. One shows two men fightin... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits. |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Legal Aid Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This service is staffed by advanced law students pictured here at the University of Wisconsin wi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 10 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Caption on reverse of wire photo: "She Digs In--An unidentified anti-war protester with designs painted on her face and carrying sign, "Sifting and Winnowi... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "Madden of the Mounted." Scene in a room of a man holding a chair and lunging towards a woman standing in an open doorway. Another man,... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of white men are posing along a pile of cinder blocks. In front of the blocks, and partially obscured by shadows, is the body of a black man. Capti... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Protestors marching in protest of police violence. |
| Date: | 01 18 1971 |
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| Description: | A group of young women are marching on the sidewalk in front of a building with a sign above the entrance that reads: "The Empire." One young woman has a s... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Linda Crump — girl on left, a student who was hit by a rock in her bus on the way out of S. Boston." Two girls and a young... |
| Date: | 09 12 1974 |
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| Description: | View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo... |
| Date: | 05 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young men stand together. One is holding a sign that is barely visible. Next to him is another sign that reads "Come and help STOP the VIOLENCE". Capti... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl... |
| Date: | 12 05 1957 |
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| Description: | A nun is handing a glass to a man in a bed. Another man — who has numerous stitches along the side of his face — is standing next to the bed. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Poster with black ink on an orange background. Text at top reads: "Law & Order," and text at the bottom reads: "From Saigon to Orangeburg." There are two i... |
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